Section 18-3-30. Duty of officer to whom attachment directed generally; duty of officer to whom attachment directed regarding property removed from county

   It shall be the duty of any one of the officers to whom an attachment is directed to levy the attachment upon real or personal property of the defendant which is necessary to satisfy the claim of the plaintiff and which may be found in the county of which he is an officer. It shall be the duty of any one of the officers to whom an attachment is directed, where the defendant has removed his property beyond the limits of the county in which the attachment is issued and returnable, to follow the property into any county of the state, levy the attachment upon such property of the defendant which is necessary to satisfy the claim of the plaintiff, and return the property to the county in which the attachment is returnable.

Laws 1799, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 70; Laws 1841, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 87; Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 25, § 10; Code 1863, § 3206; Code 1868, § 3217; Code 1873, § 3284; Code 1882, § 3284; Civil Code 1895, § 4530; Civil Code 1910, § 5075; Code 1933, § 8-201.